Nate Marquardt Returning To MMA Competition On 6th August For Titan FC
Former UFC Middleweight title challenger and Strikeforce Welterweight champion Nate Marquardt is back competing in MMA.
On Friday night at Titan FC 70, Marquardt announced that he will be back fighting in the cage on 6th August for Titan FC. This will be Nate’s first fight since November 2017, when he lost via split decision to Cezar Ferreira at ‘UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs Pettis’. Nate joined Charles Rosa in the cage between fights, where he stated his motivations for returning to mixed martial arts competition.
“It’s 100 percent God,” Marquardt said. “Honestly, I’ve been sent here to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and he’s the only way to be saved and our nation is in desperate need right now to turn back to the Lord. I believe that’s the message God has for me and I’m really excited to fight again.”
Back in March, Nate expanded on the message God had for him in an extremely enlightening interview with Sherdog’s Keith Shillan. Marquardt told Shillan that God had visited him in a dream and wanted him to return to the cage. He described in great detail how he was told by a man in his dream, that he didn’t need to give up fighting to become a ‘spiritual champion’, for he could give him both. Nate then asked the man how he would know that this wasn’t just a normal dream, to which the man replied “I’ll confirm it”.
“Sure enough, I went to a prayer meeting later that week and three people came up to me separately, individually, they didn’t hear what the other people said and two of them were strangers that didn’t know I was a fighter, didn’t know what wrestling is or anything, and basically told me that God wants me to keep fighting… Later, even in that year, I had other people confirm it as well”.
Marquardt’s opponent for his return to the cage is yet to be confirmed. All we know is that the fight is set to take place in Miami on the previously stated date, and that it will likely be a middleweight bout.
Nate Marquardt will be best known for his two stints as a UFC fighter. The first stretching from 2005 to 2011 and the second from 2013 to 2017. Between these two runs, Marquardt competed for Strikeforce, winning the companies vacant Welterweight title against Tyron Woodley, before dropping it to Tarec Saffiedine six months later. In the UFC, Marquardt recorded victories over Jeremy Horn, Martin Kampmann, Demian Maia and Rousimar Palhares. At UFC 73, he fought Anderson Silva for the Middleweight title in an unsuccessful showing that ended via first round TKO.
